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I'm pretty sure that most women are just not attracted to men even moderately shorter than themselves but they're too prideful to admit it so we get stuff like

• Gracana 4y ago
  Someone will complain regardless. The “problem” is women having preferences, not the way they express them.
  • Teever 4y ago
    Someone will always complain. Honest is still the best policy.
  • midoridensha 4y ago
    Having preferences is still a problem (a real problem) when your preferences are utterly unrealistic and ridiculous. Such as not-so-attractive 5'2" women demanding to only date men who are 6'4", or 60-year-old men refusing to date women older than 30. Of course, I guess you could argue that people like this really shouldn't be in relationships to begin with, so it's better if they maintain their preferences and standards and refuse to budge, effectively self-opting out of the dating pool.
    • jjj123 4y ago
      Why are unrealistic preferences a problem for anyone but the person with the unrealistic preferences? The only way someone else’s standards become a problem for you is when you feel entitled to that person’s attraction (“I’m a 7 and she’s a 6, therefore she should give me a chance. But she only talks to 9s, the nerve!”). But you’re not actually entitled to anyone’s attraction, so that’s on you, not on them.
      • midoridensha 4y ago
        >Why are unrealistic preferences a problem for anyone but the person with the unrealistic preferences? Did you read my 2nd paragraph? >The only way someone else’s standards become a problem for you For me personally, that's right. For society as a whole, suppose that everyone suddenly decided they would only date model-beautiful people. Pretty soon, everyone is terminally single, no one forms families or has children, and society dies out within a couple of generations (unless a different way of raising children is found, such as keeping them all in government-run institutions, but this still entails a radical change to society).
• cptskippy 4y ago
  > I'm pretty sure that most women are just not attracted to men even moderately shorter than themselves I don't deny some people aren't attracted to people their size or shorter AND short men tend to have insecurities that manifest themselves sometimes negatively AND it's become a fad/meme for women to go for tall guys. The kind of hate that's been going around recently about short men isn't all that different from the bald man hate in the 80s and 90s IMO.
  • Teever 4y ago
    I generally agree with everything you're saying here, but I don't think that there's any sort of exceptional hate directed towards short men at this point in time, nor do I think that it's women being attracted to tall men is a fad/meme.
    • cptskippy 4y ago
      Yeah, I phrased that poorly. I didn't mean to imply that it was any more or less but rather that it is in the limelight. Hate is also the wrong word, it's more of a making light of the reality.
  • snozolli 4y ago
    it's become a fad/meme for women to go for tall guys. There's a reason that men are, on average, significantly taller than women (5'9" va 5'4" according to google). The preference dates back forever. There's also a factor that people don't like to talk about: overweight women like tall men because it makes them feel "petite".
    • cptskippy 4y ago
      I disputed that, and it's now popular to post on social media both being rejected for being short or rejecting someone for being short.